What started as late-night conversations turned into handcuffs, an assault with plastic pipes, and eventually the brutal murder of a 26-year-old engineer in… Vasai area in Mumbai, with many horrific details emerging since the murder came to light.
The victim was beaten to death, stuffed inside a green drum and thrown into an isolated bank in Vasai by his married mistress, her husband and two accomplices after he stopped sending her money.
The deceased was identified as Arbaaz Maqsood Ali Khan, 26 years old, a resident of the area Mumbra worked as an engineer for a prominent real estate developer in Dombivli.
Mumbra police have arrested the 25-year-old woman and her brother on charges of murdering her lover with the help of her husband and another accomplice. The woman’s husband and his friend are currently on the run.
Terrifying details about the “Green Drum” murder in Mumbai
The police investigating the matter said that the victim, Arbaaz Maqsood Ali Khan, had been in a relationship with a 25-year-old woman named Mahjabeen Khatun Ikran Sheikh since 2021. The accused now in the case is a resident of Mahjabeen city. Vasai. What initially started as an apparently genuine love affair turned into the accused woman gradually demanding money from the victim, which police said he regularly transferred into her account over the years.
According to the police, the relationship soured when the victim stopped sending money to the veiled people every month, which prompted her to plan to kill him.
Her husband Hassan Sheikh, her brother Tariq Sheikh and the latter’s friend Mugam Pathan allegedly helped her in the crime.
How it unfolded
The police investigation so far has revealed that the victim went to Mumbai Dadar district on April 3 to collect cash for his company but never returned home. This prompted his father to file a missing person complaint at Mumbra police station, after which the cops were quick to act.
The initial investigation included the victim’s call logs and the location of his cell phone. The website data revealed that it was the same as the data of the accused woman in Vasai from the day the victim disappeared.
Transfer money from $It was also found that the victim provided $50,000 to the accused just one day before his disappearance.
When questioned, the woman initially denied any knowledge. But police said she later admitted that she had demanded more money from the victim after she summoned him to her home in Bhoidapada in Vasai. When nothing was found, her three male accomplices tied the victim’s hands and legs and assaulted him with plastic pipes.
The assault allegedly resulted in head injuries, which in turn led to the victim’s death.
The accused allegedly stuffed Khan’s body in a green barrel and dumped it in a drain in an isolated area under Valiv police station limits.
The case was filed and arrests were made
Police arrested the accused, Mahjabeen Khatoon Ekran Sheikh, and her brother, Tariq, on May 7. The woman’s husband, Hassan, and her boyfriend, Pathan, are still on the run.
The police registered a case under Sections 140, 3(5) (kidnapping, murder or for ransom), 103(1) (prescribes punishment for murder) and 238 (voluntarily destroying evidence of crime) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against all the four accused at Mumbra police station.
